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Skies2018 said:
it would be absurd not to. You can’t support a giant athletic program on the $5M a year from BE TV rights.
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Things will be changing before then and brands are what's going to matter. UConn basketball is positioned great for the future, UConn football is positioned poorly for the future. UConn will protect basketball to keep it at the very top at all costs. They aren't going to make any decisions based on football that will hurt basketball. We already did that once.
 
Gburyhusky said:
Why must every loss become a referendum on the program and apparently the entire athletics department? Good grief give it a rest.
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Yes it has become borderline trolling at this point in a postgame thread. The people who bring it are piling on and getting all horned up on regurgitating their same view points.
 
shizzle787 said:
The sky is not falling. This is a disappointing loss but we are no where near where we were 5 years. I blame Mora for the loss today, but we didn’t get blown out; we lost at the very end.

Sacred Heart and UMass SHOULD be wins.

Tennessee will be a blow out.

I think we will be competitive against both BC and James Madison. With the exception of Georgia State and Duke, we have been in every game.

It’s hilarious people want to give up now but didn’t give up 5 years ago
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Agree. This game was another gut punch in a season of them. We are better now than a few years ago, and we have hope for the future. I still believe in Mora as HC but he has to make some changes with OC, ST coach, and hire a DC.
 
There is just not a clutch bone in this teams body not one. Being clutch doesn’t mean you have to pull a Kemba, you just have to pull off the basics.

Too many dropped passes, standing in section 209 seeing a good look of USF qb, in the 4th he liter had time to drink a full sip of beer before throwing a pass and I’m not even exaggerating.
 
ZooCougar said:
The direction this discussion has gone is exemplary of why we suck.

You guys just can’t get basketball off the brain.
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Dude, and I mean that respectfully, basketball is all we have. And in a major way.
 
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superjohn said:
Things will be changing before then and brands are what's going to matter. UConn basketball is positioned great for the future, UConn football is positioned poorly for the future. UConn will protect basketball to keep it at the very top at all costs. They aren't going to make any decisions based on football that will hurt basketball. We already did that once.
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Alright. I'll bite. What decision did we make based on football that hurt basketball? Making football D1/FBS in the first place?
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I’m done with this season already
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I love when people post to tell us they're done. I get the emotion of it but it always reads like a cry for help. It's gonna be okay. Diversify a bit. Losing sucks. Bad refs suck. Playcalling, Conference Realignment. Kids making mistakes. Today was everything rolled into one. We snatched defeat from the Jaws of Victory. But they had a little extra help out there during crunch time.
 
First, I think Mora needs to honestly consider handing defensive coordinator duties off to someone. Maybe there's not enough money to hire a DC, who knows. Figure it out but we need someone other than Mora. He needs to manage the whole thing, not be involved totally in the D.

Second, why Charlton is still on this staff is mind boggling. UConn should hire a UConn student who is an insane Madden player and just give them one of those tablets that shows the plays. Let them study it and have them call in the plays to a person who is like an OC. Honestly, we'd do much better.
 
jostar1 said:
Where would we have gone? Did we have an invitation from the Big East during those years? I don't think we did in the early years.
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Independent from the jump in football and stayed with the Catholic 7 in the Big East.
 
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Another frustratingly winnable game. Dropped passes by both the WR & DBs ended drives prematurely and gave USF new life. Both fumbles were cases where the runner failed to cover the ball as they fought for extra yards. The field goal in the second quarter into the wind was a horrible decision, USF had so little confidence that McFadden would be able to reach it into that wind from 48 that they even had a guy back to return it, perhaps the shortest field goal I've ever seen a return man back there for. Then in the second half, after Roberson and the offense moved the ball well when UConn was passing on early downs, they never took a shot on first down. A play action pass early, even if it failed, would've helped clear the running lanes for Edwards.

The team still suffers from a lack of speed. It's why the kick coverage has been so bad, they just don't get down the field to cover. Caratan constantly outkicks the coverage. They struggle to contain the edges and of course the tackling issues continue.
 
jostar1 said:
Was staying with the Catholic 7 an option at that time?
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Probably, but we didn't want to take the risk of going independent in football then would be my guess.
 
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UCFBfan said:
First, I think Mora needs to honestly consider handing defensive coordinator duties off to someone. Maybe there's not enough money to hire a DC, who knows. Figure it out but we need someone other than Mora. He needs to manage the whole thing, not be involved totally in the D.

Second, why Charlton is still on this staff is mind boggling. UConn should hire a UConn student who is an insane Madden player and just give them one of those tablets that shows the plays. Let them study it and have them call in the plays to a person who is like an OC. Honestly, we'd do much better.
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There’s money. It’s been Mora’s choice.
 
Kowalski said:
I’m pretty confident our basketball would have suffered in the BE too with Ollie as our coach.
The Hurley hire has more to do with our basketball success than anything else.
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Maybe so but playing in empty gyms against Tulane and ECU while we were buried on channels nobody watches was terrible for the basketball program.
 
gars44 said:
That’s not exactly what I’m saying. What I’m saying is, over the last 25 years, would you rather be Uconn or Pittsburg? UConn or BC? UConn or Syracuse? I’m saying that where we are is not all that bad in comparison to Rutgers, or Maryland, or Wake Forrest, or West Virginia. We have some major accomplishments. They don’t.
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The major accomplishments will be impossible to obtain in the near future. Isn't that what coach was implying in his speech this week?
 
buddy said:
The major accomplishments will be impossible to obtain in the near future. Isn't that what coach was implying in his speech this week?
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People were saying this same thing 10 years ago.
 
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superjohn said:
Mora gonna tell us again how we need more money?
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They do, that is a fact. You need the money to compete and the officials sucked with a couple of non-calls. One was on the USF touchdown which there was holding and it wasn't called. The Pass interference that wasn't called was terrible and the coach was teed off as were many of us
 
Skies2018 said:
how is it possible that literally every single one of the 131 programs besides us and UMass are able to put together a competent team 2 years in a row? It is mind boggling it is infuriating and it’s utterly depressing. I love this school and I love college football. WHY are we constantly an absolute joke??? Like someone please explain to me how a flagship state school can’t win 5 games a year against G5 backwater programs. It’s insulting to the alumni the fans and the state. Fire Mora fire Charlton fire AD Dave and just clean house. The hell have you got to lose.
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The school has no interest in prioritizing FB at expense of BB.
You can’t tell me that an AD can assemble best coaching staff in BB and not have a freaking clue when it comes to FB.
They don’t want to pay coaches, they don’t want to do what is necessary to elevate the program.
They went on the cheap with RE for 5 years. and they have way too much salary in Charlton now so there is no DC.
Mora is doing what he can, but it’s showing. The players aren’t put in spots to win, they aren’t executing, and the play calling on both sides are incredibly inconsistent. Zero ability to adjust.

Ultimately, it’s on Mora to get better coaching. My fear, if he leaves, it is a black mark on the program I don’t see a recovery from.
 
uconnbill said:
They do, that is a fact. You need the money to compete and the officials sucked with a couple of non-calls. One was on the USF touchdown which there was holding and it wasn't called. The Pass interference that wasn't called was terrible and the coach was teed off as were many of us
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Saw that. Was one of our players literally pushed out of the end zone?
 
uconnbill said:
They do, that is a fact. You need the money to compete and the officials sucked with a couple of non-calls. One was on the USF touchdown which there was holding and it wasn't called. The Pass interference that wasn't called was terrible and the coach was teed off as were many of us
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They aren't 1-6 because of a lack of money.
 
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